ABSTRACT:
In the classic broadcast scheduling problem, there are n pages (of unit size) stored at a server, and requests for
these pages arrive over time. Whenever a page is broadcast, it satisﬁes all outstanding requests
for that page. The objective is to minimize average ﬂowtime of the requests.

In this talk, we will present a (1+eps )-speed O(1/eps^3)-competitive online algorithm for any arbitrary eps>0.
The algorithm will first produce a good "fractional schedule", and then subsequently round this to
get a good integral broadcast sequence, and these steps are done online. The notion of resource augmentation
is the following: in any time interval of length 1/eps, our online algorithm can broadcast 1/eps+1 pages while
the optimal algorithm can only broadcast 1/eps pages.